1. Worldcoin says it will allow companies and governments to use its ID system
According to Reuters, Ricardo Macieira, European general manager of Tools For Humanity, a San Francisco and Berlin-based company behind the Worldcoin project, said that Worldcoin will expand its business, attract more users around the world, and aims to allow other organizations to use its iris scanning and identity verification technology. Macieira said that companies can pay Worldcoin to use its digital identity system. For example, if a coffee shop wants to offer everyone a free cup of coffee, then Worldcoin's technology can be used to ensure that people do not ask for more than one cup of coffee without the store collecting personal data. Macieira also said that the technology behind the iris scanning ball will be open source in the future.
2. Cosmos Ecosystem EVM-compatible chain Evmos 2.0 is now online
Cosmos Ecosystem EVM-compatible chain Evmos tweeted that Evmos 2.0 has arrived. Version 2.0 updates include enabling StakeFi and IBC composability through Evmos EVM extensions, incentivizing the continued growth of the Evmos v2 token economic model, and creating value consistency with future Evmos SDK chains through software licensing.
3.SignalPlus: Macro data is weak, BTC continues to consolidate slightly
Most of the price action yesterday was focused on US Treasuries, with Japanese yields continuing to adjust following Japan's YCC adjustment, and the US Treasury's announcement that it would significantly increase long-dated bond issuance to finance its widening budget deficit, causing the 30-year Treasury yield to rise to its highest level since November; the Treasury raised its third quarter net borrowing forecast to $1 trillion, significantly higher than the $733 billion forecast in May, and will announce other quarterly financing information later today, including the size of various auctions.
4. Optimism launches Superchain Faucet, a test network faucet that supports reputation system
According to the official Twitter, Optimism announced the launch of Superchain Faucet, a testnet faucet that supports a reputation system, allowing developers to use on-chain reputation data to obtain up to 20 times the amount of regular testnet ETH. This will help developers in the Optimism ecosystem test and iterate projects more efficiently. Superchain Faucet not only supports social authentication through GitHub, but also allows developers to authenticate through on-chain identity. Currently, Superchain Faucet supports OP Goerli, but is designed to be expanded to Superchain's other OP Chains, including Base, ZORA NETWORK, PGN, and future Superchain partners. Superchain Faucet currently supports identity authentication through the Optimist NFT line, and will support World ID in the future.
5. Uniswap has banned HEX trading on its front end, possibly for regulatory reasons
The relevant page shows that Uniswap has banned HEX transactions from its front end with the label "Not available". According to the document on the Uniswap support center, the label indicates that the reason why such tokens cannot be traded is "manually set by Uniswap Labs to block tokens that infringe trademarks, tokens that have been proven to be scams, or tokens based on other legal considerations."
6. The Abracadabra community has passed the AIP 13.4 proposal of "Emergency Freeze CRV Market Liquidation"
The Snapshot page shows that the Abracadabra community, the issuer of the algorithmic stablecoin MIM, passed the "Emergency Freeze CRV Market Liquidation" AIP 13.4 proposal with 100% support. The proposal proposes to fix the price of the cauldron oracle in extreme CRV liquidity conditions to optimize the value of the DAO and avoid liquidation in a chain reaction. The purpose of the proposal is to grant Abracadabra DAO the authority to replace the existing oracle responsible for pricing CRV tokens in a timely manner when a chain event occurs. By making timely replacements, the DAO can effectively extract and safely deposit CRV tokens into the treasury, ensure their safety, and minimize potential risks associated with chain events.
7. Kraken co-founder: FTX 2.0 restart plan is too bad, and it is recommended that the custodian auction the exchange domain name and trademark
Regarding the 2.0 restart plan of the bankrupt crypto trading platform FTX, Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell commented on Twitter: “FTX 2.0 will be worse than starting from scratch. FTX 2.0 has no team, no technology, no license, no bank cooperation, and the brand has been damaged. The custodian should auction the domain name and trademark to the highest bidder. Anything beyond this is just a fee extraction attack on delusional creditors.”
8. MakerDAO community proposes to deploy Spark Protocol to Polygon zkEVM
The Polygon Labs team initiated a new proposal on MakerDao, proposing to deploy Spark Protocol, a lending protocol under MakerDAO, to Polygon zkEVM. The proposal stated that Spark Protocol currently uses Chainlink Price Feeds to meet its oracle needs. Polygon Labs is currently discussing with the Chainlink Labs team, which will soon support Polygon zkEVM in August. This schedule provides ample time for Spark to be deployed on Polygon zkEVM. The initial collateral to be launched includes WETH, wstETH, and DAI. Polygon Labs is currently exploring options to provide initial DAI liquidity for the launch of Spark on zkEVM. In order to start liquidity, the minimum target size of DAI liquidity is US$500,000. Polygon Labs will determine the size of additional initial grants to guide the development of Spark on Polygon zkEVM.
9. The Uniswap community is voting on the proposal to deploy V3 to ConsenSys zkEVM network Linea
The governance page shows that the Uniswap community is conducting an on-chain vote on the proposal to "deploy Uniswap V3 to the ConsenSys zkEVM network Linea", which will end at 21:57 today. The proposal has previously passed the temperature check vote, and the relevant Uniswap v3 contracts have also been deployed on the Linea chain. If this on-chain vote passes, this deployment will be officially recognized as a standard v3 deployment through the amendment of the v3deployments.uniswap.eth subdomain. After that, Uniswap Labs will be tasked with handling front-end integration updates and adding Linea to the automatic router (this last step is not subject to the DAO's decision and is entirely handled by Uniswap Labs).
10. Open source software security solution Socket completes $20 million Series A financing, led by a16z
According to Techcrunch, open source software security solution Socket announced the completion of a $20 million Series A financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Abstract Ventures, Wndrco, Unusual Ventures, and angel investors including Box co-founder Aaron Levie, Figma co-founder Dylan Field, Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz. The new funds will be used to expand the team and support and integrate more programming languages. It is reported that with the previous $4.6 million seed round, Socket's total financing has reached $24.6 million. Unlike traditional static analysis tools, Socket's open source code security vulnerability detection service can provide actionable feedback related to dependency risks rather than hundreds of meaningless alerts. In addition, Socket recently launched a ChatGPT connector that can summarize potential problems in software packages and identify "uncommon" code patterns. Socket's current customers include Metamask, Brave, Magic Eden, Figma, and Vercel.
11.Aptos launches Move v1.4 and v1.5 to prepare for performance enhancements and ecosystem
According to the official Twitter, Aptos launched Move Framework v1.4 and v1.5 to prepare for performance enhancements, key features, and ecosystem development. Aptos v1.4 expands the Move standard library, and updates include the addition of FixedPoint64, various mathematical functions (exp, log, mul_div, etc.), string formatting, and additional inline functions; in v1.5, Aptos introduced Quorum Store to the mainnet, introduced a new Aptos token standard that utilizes Move objects, improved the tool suite, integrated peer monitoring services in each node, etc. These enhancements improve the functionality of the Move ecosystem and make the development of financial applications more efficient and accurate.
12. FTX restructuring plan includes the establishment of a trust company to manage illiquid investments
According to Bitcoin.com, the proposed FTX restructuring plan shows that in addition to establishing an "offshore exchange company", the current FTX team is also considering setting up a new trust company called "FTX Ventures Trust". The trust will hold FTX's investments in private startups and digital tokens that FTX does not plan to sell immediately after exiting bankruptcy. The purpose of the trust is to manage these long-term investments and distribute cash from them over time. FTX has not yet decided whether the trust will be owned by FTX's bankruptcy estate or traded separately after bankruptcy. The goal is to find a way to maximize the value of these illiquid investments, which are not easily sold by FTX managers after bankruptcy. In addition, FTX's current CEO John J. Ray III said that FTX hopes to work with creditors to modify the plan in the third quarter of 2023 and submit a disclosure statement in the fourth quarter. Earlier yesterday, it was reported that FTX had submitted a restructuring plan that included restarting the offshore exchange; the FTX creditor committee will soon begin negotiations with the debtor on the business level of the terms of the restructuring plan.
13.Radiant Capital: 1.3 million ARB airdrop for dLP lockers is now open for claiming
Radiant Capital, a multi-chain lending protocol, announced on Twitter that the ARB airdrop for eligible dLP lockers is now open for claiming. Earlier on July 18, Radiant Capital completed the second snapshot, and 1.3 million ARB will be distributed to eligible dLP lockers.
14. A suspected Curve attacker has been located, and the on-chain detective is trying to contact this person for negotiation
A suspected Curve attacker has been located. On-chain detective ZachXBT tried to contact a Twitter user named "Michael Razoumovitch (MichaelRazum)" on Twitter for negotiation, saying: "The JPEG'd team wants to chat with you because your on-chain address is related to the recent Curve Pool attack. Please make it easy for all of us and send a message to JPEG'd or me as soon as possible."
15. Following Volatility Shares, Grayscale, VanEck and other 5 companies submitted Ethereum futures ETF applications
Eric Balchunas, senior analyst of Bloomberg exchange-traded funds, disclosed on Twitter that according to the latest documents, six companies are currently applying for Ethereum futures ETFs. Following Volatility Shares' application yesterday, Bityise, Roundhill, VanEck, Proshares and Grayscale also submitted applications for Ethereum futures ETFs on August 1, local time. They are Bitwise Ethereum Strategy ETF, Roundhill Ether Strategy ETF, Ethereum Strategy ETF, Proshares Short Ether Strategy ETF and Grayscale Ethereum Futures ETF (ETHG). The next deadline for the US SEC to make a decision on the above applications is October 16. In addition, the next deadline for Volatility Shares' application is October 11.